One Republican strategist not affiliated with the McCain campaign mused about how an independent advertising effort against Obama might work. “Barack Obama: He’s not who you think he is” would be the theme. The supporting evidence would come from his left-wing voting record in Illinois and Washington, spiced up with fun video clips of Reverend Wright.
In his Monday column for the New York Times, The Shape of the Race to Come King Neocon William Kristol muses that John McCain can beat Barack Obama. The above excerpt only brings attention to what is already the present basis of Republican Talk Radio, the racist card used by the GOP for most of a generation has changed from Jackson/Sharpton to Jackson/Shartpton/Obama. No enlightenment there from easily the most irritating, annoying, smirking little chickenhawk on planet Earth.
Kristol goes on to tell us even more of what we already know:
And an experienced Democratic operative e-mailed: “Finally, I think [McCain’s] going to win. Obama isn’t growing in stature. Once I thought he could be Jimmy Carter, but now he reminds me more of Michael Dukakis with the flag lapel thing and defending Wright. Plus he doesn’t have a clue how to talk to the middle class. He’s in the Stevenson reform mold out of Illinois, with a dash of Harvard disease thrown in.”
In a close race, that “dash of Harvard disease” could be the difference.
For as was proved in the absolute in 2004, most Americans don’t like voting for anyone they think is smarter than they are.